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Amy Sherman-Palladino

Amy Sherman-Palladino Books

Television writer

Amy Sherman-Palladino, born in 1966, is a talented American television writer known for her unique narrative style and deep insight into characters. She has created several popular television series that have left a lasting impact on the industry.

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“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb out the window and down the tree. He fell, broke his leg. Ah, to be young again.”

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“As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.”

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“Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.”

Way Written Fallen Pilots Madly In Love

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“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”

Parent Car Grew Grew Up Neighbor Hello

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“I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.”

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“I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.”

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“I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.”

Thinking Television Mundane

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“No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.”

Rooms Sweatpants

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“The dance world was a big part of my growing up.”

World Bigs Growing Up Growing

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“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.”

Years Wells Whole Mother Class Childhood Grew Grew Up Dancer Ballet Dance Class

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“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

Writing Character Shows Jobs Voice

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“Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.”

People Want Trying Sometimes Turns Achieve What You Want Twists Poisonous Detrimental

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“I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.”

Dark Attention Sadness Goes On Internet Holes Attention Span

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“I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Protect Paper Direct Do It Yourself

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“If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.”

Ifs Guy Actors Kindness Nice Industry Holy Hollywood Generosity Nice Guy

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“The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.”

Long Girl Voice Air Rhythm Banter Gilmore Girls

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“You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.”

People Two Choices Voice Creative Clean Studios Committees Sitcom Right Choices Make The Right Choice

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“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

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“These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.”

Shows Television Wind Hair Shots Insane Television Shows Wind Blowing

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“I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.”

Should Believe Fans Don't Believe Crowds

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“I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.”

Thinking Littles Behinds Fans Products Projects Deserve Studios Shady

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“I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!”

Thinking Firsts Believe Beautiful Certain I Believe College Time Of Your Life First Boyfriend

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“Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.”

Mother Theater Dancer

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“TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.”

Tvs Speed Territory Furious Gunslinger

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“If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.”

Ifs Sticks Working It

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“You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.”

Ifs Path Cutting Flexible Bait

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“Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.”

Writing Process Hours Rooms Sadness Youth Sitting Coffee Ass Bitterness

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“With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.”

Writing Hard Actors Fun Laughing Wake Up Active Hanging Out Crew Stink Up Early

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“I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.”

Writing Trying Mind Different Scripts Ass Muscles

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“The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.”

Way Character Shows Television Scene Directors Following Vagabonds

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“It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.”

Ifs Writing Helping Shows Able Directors Scripts Work Out Friendly Guesswork

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“It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.”

Ifs Made Hard Film Tough Scorsese

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“This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.”

People Writing Hard Easy Figures Banging Something You Love

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“I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Persons Character Stories Process Break Particular What If Thinking What If

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“You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.”

Way Moments Guy Next Parent Throwing Knives Next Time Great Moments Good Moments

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“Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.”

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“The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons and, you know, like the sun disappearing from the world. Winter is coming. It would have been so expensive the way we would have needed to do it, had we known that the apocalypse was coming.”

Ifs Knows World Way Has Beens Whole Problem Known Sun Needed Winter Disappear Flying Budgets Satan Demon Expensive Dragons Apocalypse Winter Is Coming

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“The whole world is out of time!”

World Whole Whole World

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“People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.”

People Want Kind Bigs Car Involved Christmas Stakes Ruthless Nannies Maui Big Cars

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“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.”

Mind Hard Girl Angry Silly Rebellious Girl Power Resentful

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“To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.”

Fighting Vision Creative Crazy Creative Vision

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“With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.”

People Running Changed Judging Everyday Scripts Sitcom Judging You

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“Gilmore Girls was the highlight of my ridiculous life. I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.”

Littles I Can Ends Together Waiting Sleep Stress Coffee Broads Unbelievable Mama Dove Helpers Very Cool

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About the Author

Born: 1966
Known for: Television writer
Quotes: 43

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